Tesla Now the Most Valuable Car Company in the USA

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Wed. Mar. 13, 2019 11:12 pm

It's a no brainer .....

obviously by your foolishness.

Kevin

Post by **CoalJockey** » Thu. Mar. 14, 2019 12:15 pm

BigBarney wrote: ↑
Wed. Mar. 13, 2019 10:15 pm
Don't forget it took way over 35 Years for cars to exceed horses...

We are at the beginning of this disruptive technology...

Why would VW want to introduce 25+ all new ev's in the next 10

years , you don't pay people to be stupid.....

Trucks and buses will be first because companies have to make

money , so they look at cost savings first ....Tesla tractor gets ~17

mpge name a diesel anyway near that ,,and at 80,000# ...

I am not even mentioning the low pollution and super low

maintenance...You can't go wrong with ELECTRIC...

It's a no brainer .....

BigBarney

So by making the statement that it took over 35 years to replace horses you completely invalidate your own argument that ICE is obsolete NOW. Okay, hurry up and find another hot news link to post here and say it ain’t so.

If that’s the case by that time I will be 68 years old and riding the CART van to the weekly senior citizens gathering. Some other young buck can plug the cord into the wall while he is outside for a smoke.

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Fri. Mar. 15, 2019 2:59 pm

Just think if you were a caveman and had to wait

thousands of years before you could replace your

own motive power with domesticated animals ???

BigBarney

gaw · Post by **gaw** » Fri. Mar. 15, 2019 4:53 pm

Philadelphia has had electric busses for as long as I have been going there; thirty plus years. The electric truck will not be mainstream for many years and probably not in my lifetime. Big companies like Coke, UPS, JB Hunt and Walmart and any others showing interest are only doing so for PR reasons and maybe some sort of tax angle, I’m not an accountant so I don’t know what may be out there. It has nothing to do with profit margins and running a trucking company. I don’t have time to explain why electric trucks would be useless in most (not all) trucking operations but I have read some articles written by dreamy eyed know nothings and it don’t take long to know that they are clueless about the transportation industry. The car market will be the area of growth for EVs and it will be a minority market for some time.
The electric powertrain is not the problem. Carrying your energy supply and replenishing it is.

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Sun. Mar. 24, 2019 10:04 pm

Buses are the first area to be replaced because they provide the

most bang for the buck . The rest of the world is embracing this

and the US will finally catch up.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/22/electric-bus ... inds-bnef/

https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/04/how-did-shenzhen ... -bus-fleet

"The southeastern city, which connects Hong Kong to mainland China, announced at the end of last year that all of its 16,359 buses had gone electric. The city’s buses are the world’s first 100 percent electrified bus fleet, and its largest—bigger than New York’s, Los Angeles’s, New Jersey’s, Chicago’s and Toronto’s electric bus fleets combined."

"The early-phase technological immaturity of e-buses, coupled with the mid-life battery replacement need, often lead to frequent mechanical breakdowns and increased costs. Bus operators traditionally shoulder all these costs, but in Shenzhen, bus manufacturers provide a lifetime warranty for vehicles and batteries, because the bus operators required this at the procurement stage."

BigBarney

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 1:30 am

Old news BB. Besides Phili and SF this technology is sooo old. Here is my birthplace transport system from the 30s.

bambooboy · Post by **bambooboy** » Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 9:43 am

coalnewbie wrote: ↑
Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 1:30 am
Old news BB. Besides Phili and SF this technology is sooo old. Here is my birthplace transport system from the 30s.

Old enough to remember street cars with overhead power supply in Baltimore city.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Mon. Mar. 25, 2019 11:43 am

A friend of mine who recently passed rebuilt and repowered quite a few of Baltimore's very old trolly cars. He repowered the drivetrains with modern motors, probaby good for another 100 years.

gaw · Post by **gaw** » Tue. Mar. 26, 2019 11:16 am

Interesting read.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4251036-tesla-ti ... lity-check

Post by **coaledsweat** » Thu. Apr. 11, 2019 9:48 am

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-11/tesla-t ... ghai-due-0

More fun!

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Thu. Apr. 11, 2019 1:49 pm

and so the long long overdue Tesla death spiral starts.

Now what happens to the $500bn global car companies EV spend. Germany is now spiraling down as high power costs kill their industry thx to a one trillion dollar solar spend in a cloudy country. OMG, fashions always change with lightning speed and so now I hope miniskirts will come back in.

What are the ecolunies going to do now to save the planet .... that never needed saving in the first place. Watch as CA electric costs rise 6X . PSG has been wrecked by many factors. Time to warm up the popcorn machine, lots of entertainment coming.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4253995-tesla-can-get-worse

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Thu. Apr. 11, 2019 6:12 pm

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/11/panason ... ith-tesla/

Yawn, another nail in the coffin.

Kevin

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 8:49 pm

I have to add my new business partner drove a $135,000 Tesla last weekend. He described it as amazing......the technology was incredible.....I asked him when his was coming......blank stare. This guy is very techy, and not impressed by flashing lights and nifty sounds. Still, he laughed at the notion of it becoming "mainstream". The car was bought for $60,000 after only 3 years of life. Quite a lot of depreciation.....

Kevin

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Thu. Apr. 18, 2019 9:16 pm

More problems. Spontaneous combustion followed by incineration:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-18/tesla-s ... ning-hours

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Thu. Apr. 18, 2019 9:55 pm

What about the 786 petrol fires today ?????

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-resea ... d-patterns

No big deal for Tesla , only 0.00127% way below any other car .

What about the other 99.8% , where are they on the news ????

https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2019/bmw-fire- ... alls.shtml

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-t ... re-at-risk

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defec ... fire-risk/

Here's a breakdown of all vehicle fires and since 95+% are petrol about

202,000 total , the petrol is 193,000 of the fires. Get the facts not fantasy!!!

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Resea ... hicle.ashx

BigBarney